Butterfly stroke is a style of swimming that appeared in the Olympic Games in 1908 exclusive for
male and two games later in 1924 included the female category. This style is considerate one of the
most beautiful styles of swimming. Butterfly stroke
has two categories that are evaluated individually.
The first one is swim 100 meters in a pool of 25 meters.
The second one is 200 meters in pool of 50 meters.
Hence Butterfly stroke in the history of Olympic Games
didn’t begin with the male and female category.
One hundred twenty years ago, the first
Olympic Games were in Athens as a sport
competition for the entire world. The Olympic Games have had different sports like
athletics, cycling, fencing, gymnastics,
weightlifting, wrestling, swimming and
shooting. One of them is the swimming
that has a lot of styles that are evaluated
individually. And the styles of swimming
like butterfly stroke, front crawl or back
stroke have had a lot of historical moments in the Olympic Games.